BIRD WATCHING I did a video on the Cardinals bullpen a while back, but now I want to update and go deeper in exploring an important subject that will have a big influence — good or bad — on the team’s record in 2025. The 2024 Cardinals won 83 games...
THE WATCH LIST With the Cardinals going with a “play the kids” season in 2025, the emphasis on youth and discovery will be front and center in the way we watch St. Louis baseball in the new year. If the Cardinals are indeed serious about this, then we will see some of...
BULLPEN ANXIETY! Keeping a bullpen together isn’t easy over a full season. The seams can become undone. Bodies come and go. Sore arms are iced down on the IL. In times of urgent need, minor-league call ups are asked to do a job that they may, or may not be, ready...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW I’m sorry that I’m running late today in getting this column posted. It’s one of those days. All good. Just hectic for unexpected reasons … Anyway… The Cardinals are in Chicago to begin a four-game series at Wrigley Field and will try to build on...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW Cardinals 2, Pirates 1. What a ballgame. Let us review some of the things that made the competition so special. 1) Lance Lynn, the old grizzly, held his own against the rookie Pittsburgh phenom Paul Skenes. There were a lot of pitcher pounds out...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW The St. Louis front office is said to be working the emails, texts and phone calls in the pursuit of a starting pitcher before time runs out on the July 30 trading deadline. If president of baseball ops John Mozeliak and staff are successful in...
THE REDBIRD REVIEW Only 66 games to go for the Cardinals. They went into the All-Star break with a 50-46 record and had their hands on the No. 2 wild-card ticket in the National League. In the wild-card pacing, the Cardinals are perched between the No. 1 Braves and...
WEEKEND AT BERNIE’S The Cardinals played some baseball in the spirit of a Sly and the Family Stone song on Saturday, having some hot fun in the summertime by sweeping the Cubs in a day-night doubleheader. Them summer days. Those summer days. (And yeah, that’s a...
BIRD BYTES Which is like Bernie Bits, except it’s all Cardinals Talk. I welcome you to a heap of Bernie’s Bird Bytes, delivered straight to you from the recesses and excesses of my mind. There is plenty of trade-deadline jibber and jabber in written-word form in...
